OceanCraft
Compatability Patch
Slight update to the controller input. (If you had trouble with the Rift S menu interaction, it should be fixed now)
Small fix and Halloween Event
Also added content for halloween event.
OceanCraft Event - It´s getting spookie
This event is limited to only happen a week around Halloween from the 24th October to the 2rd November. You will keep all the stuff you collect during the event, but after the 3rd everything will return to normal until Halloween next year, so you better don´t miss it!
If you have spend some time in OceanCraft during Halloween last year most of the content will be familiar to you, but we also added some new things!
Spookie Islands
Go hunting for the treasure of cursed pirates on spookie islands. Are you brave enough to lift the coffin, or are you too scared of catching a curse?
Candy
It´s time to move away from all these healthy vegetables and fresh fish you have been enjoying so far, and start eating the real deal: candy.
There will be small trick-or-treat bags floating around in the water, supplying you with all the sugar you could ever want (don´t ask, how they got there).
Jack-O-Lantern
It´s getting dark at night on your OceanCraft, better craft yourself some lanterns out of the pumpkins you have been growing so far. And of course they also look nice in daylight!
You can get the needed candles from special Halloween airdrops.
Witch Hat
To bewitch all of your friends with your stunning looks, we added a witch hat you can also find in the Halloween airdrops. You can wear this hat like the other hats from the last update.
Here is a list of the complete season features:
- Candy bonbon
- Lollipop
- Jack-O-Lantern for crafting and building
- Seasonal category in crafting book
- Candle (only for crafting Jack-O-Lantern)
- Halloween balloon air drops
- Floating Halloween candy bag
- Halloween witch hat
- Big fish wear witch hat
- Palms on islands are dead trees
- Treasure chest on island is coffin
Free OceanCraft demo now available on steam
With all the technical and graphical changes to OceanCraft we decided to update the demo version. This update also opened the opportunity to release the demo version onto other platforms, such as steam.
So, if you have a friend you want to show the game to, or you yourself want to test the game before buying you can now download the free demo version on steam!
The demo can be played cross platform multiplayer with the sidequest demo! Multiplayer between the demo and the full game is not possible.
Patch 0.8.15 - Invisible Islands
OceanCraft Update 0.8.x – Treasure Hunting
After months of work and lots of testing, we finally have the next update for you! As announced earlier this year the Theme is “Treasure Hunting” which involves treasure maps, sunken treasures, and an underwater environment.
Gameplay wise this update fills a gap in the middle of the current progress - before you get to build the sail. There is very few new content to the end of the journey. So, if you want to experience the changes fully, we recommend getting your friends together and starting a new game! Though of course you can still play with your old save games.
Treasure Map
The islands hold more secrets than you knew! Each one of them has a hidden treasure just waiting for you to find it. So, use your trusted compass to orient your treasure map to north, compare landmarks and start searching for the right spot. Once you have found it, you can use the new treasure magnet, to lift the chest out of the ground! See who of your friends can get to the treasure first!
Sunken Treasures
Deep on the grounds of the ocean there are not only sunken islands, but also sunken treasures waiting for you to find them. Once you see a treasure spot highlighted on the horizon, set sail, or use your new mode of transport the “waterwheel” to get there. You can use your crane to lift the sunken treasure up. We know there are sunken pirate ships, but what else can you find?
Underwater Reef
In the waters of every island lays a paradise just waiting for you. Use the diving pier to reach the underwater world, enjoy the atmosphere of the coral reef and collect some crafting resources.
Character Creator
We are finally fulfilling the discord communities wish for beards! Additionally, we added glasses you can wear, more hair colors, and the option to change your appearance in game with the crafting object “Dresser”.
Together with these changes we also made the hats into collectable items. This means whenever you find and wear a hat, it gets added to your collection and you can from then on choose to wear it from your collection.
You can also meet up with different players and exchange hat collections. To add to the fun, we added a whole bunch of new hats. Can you collect them all?
Player Rights
Did you have troubles with other players misbehaving on your OceanCraft? Then we have the solution for you! While you can not make them walk the plank, you can limit their interactions.
You can now decide on a per player basis if they can 1) access chests 2) build new objects onto you OceanCraft 3) destroy objects on your OceanCraft and 4) can grab anything.
Additionally, every chest/crafting table inventory has the option to be locked/set to “private”. A locked chest can only be accessed by the host of the game.
We hope these additional options will make you feel saver, when inviting other people to your OceanCraft. You can use the “Grab anything” right as a visitor mode, where other people can look at what you build, but cannot change anything.
Of course, you still have the option to ban people from your game if they continue to be trouble.
As always there is a lot more to explore. Here are the full build notes:
New Content
- Added glasses as collectable items. They can be found in balloons and chest, like the hats
- Added more hats
- Added Character Creator (Dresser) into main game
- change your appearance while on your OceanCraft
- added more colors for hair
- added beards
- added hats category
- added glasses category
- change your appearance while on your OceanCraft
- Added underwater reef
- Reefs can be accessed from islands
- Decoration (fish and corals) is randomly generated
- Players can find crafting materials
- Reefs can be accessed from islands
- Added Sunken Treasures
- Treasure spots appear once the workbench is built
- Sunken Treasures can be lifted with the crane, like islands
- There are multiple appearances each with randomly generated decoration
- Each Sunken treasure has one chest which contains crafting materials, food, hats and glasses
- Treasure spots appear once the workbench is built
- Added Treasure Hunting
- Each island now contains a treasure chest
- Once an island is found the map changes to show the position of the chest
- Chests contain crafting materials, food, hats and glasses
- Chests can be lifted with the treasure chest magnet
- Each island now contains a treasure chest
- Added Tool Treasure chest magnet
- Magnet can be crafted in the crafting table
- When the magnet is pointed at the spot of the treasure chest, it will lift the chest up
- Magnet can be crafted in the crafting table
- Added tree plant pot in which coconuts, kiwis and oranges can be planted
- Walls now also fit into the 45° floors
- Added waterwheel
- Waterwheel can be crafted from the workbench
- Before the sail is accessible players can use the waterwheel to move their OceanCraft
- Waterwheel can be crafted from the workbench
- Added simple anchor
- Simple anchor can be crafted from the workbench
- Before the better anchor is accessible players can use the simple anchor to stop their OceanCraft
- The simple anchor can only be used once
- Simple anchor can be crafted from the workbench
- Added privacy settings
- Host now has more control over other players during multiplayer games
- The host can change the settings when starting a game and in the crafting book
- Default settings are applied to joining players, but every right can be applied on a per player basis
- Every chest can be locked by the host. Locked chests can only be accessed by the host
- Rights
- Can interact (This is the extreme settings. Players without it cannot interact with anything in the game)
- Can build (Players with this setting can build new things onto the OceanCraft)
- Can destroy (Players with this setting can destroy already build things with the hammer)
- Can access public chests (Without this setting players cannot use chests. Players with this setting can use chests, unless they are locked by the host)
- Can interact (This is the extreme settings. Players without it cannot interact with anything in the game)
- Host now has more control over other players during multiplayer games
- Added option to change the rotation speed settings for smooth rotation
Changes
- Hats are now collectable items. Once the player has found one, it can be found in the character creator
- Metal and fabric are no longer exclusively from tiny pirates, but can also be found in sunken treasures
- Balloons no longer contain all hats. Some are now in sunken treasures and the island treasure chest
- Island spots now only appear once the craftingtable is build
Bugfixes
- Fixed lighting in the menu
- Fixed problems with water pistol
- Fixed problems with lighting sometimes striking in invalid spots
OceanCraft Patch - You shall not pass
Players that were kicked out of a game used to be able to rejoin the game after a time limit had passed. Since players abused this feature to harass others - it has been removed. If a player is now kicked out of a game, there is no way for him to rejoin!
If you have kicked out a friend for fun and want him to rejoin you now need to close the current play session, return to the menu and open it again.
Since we want to support players opening public games for others, but also protect them from harassment, we are planning to add additional privacy settings, so players can choose who can take out items from chests, build new items, destroy already build items and so on.
We are sorry for everyone who had a bad experience.
OceanCraft - Work in Progress - Treasure Hunting
We know you are all super curious about what we are currently working on, so to bridge the time until the next update we thought we would share some pictures of our progress!
The Theme of the next Update will be “Treasure Hunting”! Including Treasure Maps, Sunken Treasures and Underwater Riffs.
Those who follow our discord, also know that we are expanding the character creator!
We still need some time, until we are finished with everything we planned, but we are currently hoping to bring the update to you before august!
OceanCraft Event – Happy Easter!
Bunny Ears
Everybody can be the easter bunny, with these cute pink bunny ears. Put them on and hide some things for your friends.
You can get the bunny ears but shooting the easter balloons floating over your OceanCraft.
Easter eggs
There are colorful eggs floating all over the ocean. Collect them with your hook to decorate your OceanCraft, or just eat them.
Easter basket
Craft this nice decorative easter basket to bring some easter spirit to your OceanCraft
OceanCraft Update 0.7x – Land in sight
Maps
Collect bottle messages out of the ocean, to find treasure maps to hidden island. Navigate the sea with the help of your compass and direct your OceanCraft by manipulating the sail. Be ready for what you find, once you have reached the X on your map.
Crane and Anchor
All islands in the world of OceanCraft have sunken to the ocean floor, and it is your task to find them and pull them up into the air again. Once you have reached an island, stop you OceanCraft by releasing the anchor. Then you can use a crane, to pull them up.
Islands
The islands you will find are full of riches. Get a pause from fish and potatoes and bite into a rich juicy orange, kiwi or coconut. Try your luck at fishing the new fish out of ponds on the island. Or carefully search for the crafting resources you can collect.
Once you have fully explored and harvested the island, you can go back to your OceanCraft, return the island back to the ocean, pull the anchor back and set sail for your next destination. But carefully consider leaving, each island is unique and once you have released it, you won´t be able to visit it ever again.
Blender
Are you sick of always drinking the same old distilled water? We have the solution for your: smoothies. Just put whatever food you want into your brand-new blender (yes even fish). Pull the lever and in a matter of seconds you have a more or less delicious smoothie. And we haven´t even told you the best thing yet, they not only reduce your thirst, but also your hunger.
As always beside the big main update features we of course have lots of small changes and features:
- Reworked Start Screen
- Decluttered information for cleaner look
- No more private toggle over all games, but asking per game
- Option to give new worlds internal names (only visible to the host)
- Added loading with fade in/out (start screen to game)
- Decluttered information for cleaner look
- Added Singleplayer mode (offline ingame, but still needs internet connection in start screen)
- Added Map to Island
- Map starts spawning in the ocean after the craftingtable is build
- Map shows location and direction of the OceanCraft
- Map shows location of the island
- Map gets inactive once the island was found -> Players can find new map for next island
- New item compass to help with orientation
- Map starts spawning in the ocean after the craftingtable is build
- Sailing
- Players can rotate the sail to change the direction
- Players can lift up/down the sail to change the driving speed
- Multiple sails interact with each other (but don´t give a big advantage in speed)
- Players can rotate the sail to change the direction
- Islands
- Finding:
- Players see islands in the world as shining spots
- Players can find islands with the help of the map
- Players can lift islands up out of the ocean with the crane
- After exploring the island player put it back under the sea
- Players see islands in the world as shining spots
- Content
- New food for eating and grilling
- Coconut
- Orange
- Kiwi
- Pond Fish 1
- Pond Fish 2
- Coconut
- Randomly generated island environment containing grass, rocks, sand, trees and ponds
- Crafting Resources
- Metal
- Sand (can be used to craft glass)
- Metal
- New food for eating and grilling
- Finding:
- Crane
- Can lift islands up und down
- Indicates if it is placed correctly (needs to face open water), if an island is under it, and if the player has to move it up or down
- Players need to turn the crank to use it
- Can lift islands up und down
- Anchor
- Completely stops the OceanCraft
- Has quick release
- Anchor can be cranked up again
- Completely stops the OceanCraft
- Blender
- All food can be put in the blender and mixed to create smoothies
- Smoothies can be filled in bottles
- All food can be put in the blender and mixed to create smoothies
- Bottle
- Bottles can be crafted
- Bottles can be filled with smoothies
- Players can fill and drink out of bottles three times
- Smoothies in bottles help with hunger and thirst
- Bottles can be crafted
- Added buildable door (wall with door) in wood and metal optic
- Added buildable fishing nets, which collect things out of the ocean on their own
- Added two new building tables, craftingtable and craftinglab for crafting new advanced items
- Added new tool advanced hook, which shoots a lot farther
- Added item statistics board, which shows the number of days the players spend on the ocean
- Added ability to build things on walls (currently only used for statistics board, but now that we have it, we will probably add more items in the future, that use it)
- Added buildable crows nest
- Changed camera, so every photo gets saved always (before the player needed to actively save them which let to photos getting accidentally deleted)
- Missions
- Adjusted old mission texts to new gameplay
- Added mission for fire, pirates and islands
- Adjusted old mission texts to new gameplay
- Balancing
- Fires take longer to spread and destroy platforms
- Pirates no longer spawn depending on the amount of players (now always 3 ships)
- Changed the needed resources for some crafting items
- Fires take longer to spread and destroy platforms
- Bugfixes
- Optimised save system so player should no longer loose their inventory
- Optimised save system of build objects, so player should no longer loose their items (crate items, fish in fishbowl, plants in plant pots, wood in purifier and grill)
- Walking of the OceanCraft into the water no longer resets health
- Fire no longer physically interacts with other objects (moving mug of purifier, or food of the grill)
- Fixed duplication issue, when player simultaneously grabs an item from the inventory and teleports
- Fixed issue with texts not showing tags (e.g. introduction dolphin text not showing which buttons the player has to press)
- Fixed problem where when the raincloud never reached the OceanCraft (because of wind changes) no new enemies would spawn
- Fixed issue where lever of craftingtable would be stuck under the table, when multiple players lifted the table up and down
- Fixed issue, where ground platforms could not be placed, when things floated through them
- Optimised save system so player should no longer loose their inventory